How to copy figures and "input"ed LaTeX source files from absolute directories to a local one?

Question

For example, in my main.tex I use

\input{/home/certain-directory/chapter-1.tex}

and

\input{/home/another-directory/chapter-2.tex}

I also have some figures included by their absolute paths in my /home/results-directory.

Question:

Are there any tools available for copying the source with figures to another directory (with sub-directories to hold the figures)?

Such that we can compile on another PC without manually editing the absolute paths.

related(?): Using a non-centralized structure for tex files - similar to \graphicspath — cmhughes, Nov 12 '13 at 17:53
@cmhughes Thanks. But I had figures with the same name in different directories. And I named a directory like parameterNameAndValue. — Hongying, Nov 13 '13 at 08:07
This would be a very useful utility. But no answers here. Waiting. — Yogesh Haribhau Kulkarni, Nov 23 '14 at 01:28
Easy to do in lualatex without resorting to command line utilities. If this question is still around in a couple of days then I'll write something up; busy now. — JPi, Sep 18 '15 at 14:22
The question is absolutely unclear. And as per your provided answer it is off-topic for this site. — , Nov 15 '17 at 14:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 21 '15 at 08:21

I'm trying to write a script to perform this.

As being lack of knowledge of command line tools like xargs, find, grep, and sed, I stopped at the following (just to extract the figure names)

$ sed -n 's/.*\\includegraphics\[.*\]{\(.*\)}/\1/p'  main.tex > temp_figures
 fig/laurana_view30_50.png

At present I would edit temp_figures in Vim to vertically add cp on each line, and complete the missing extensions of figure names using c-x c-f

And rather than copy all the files with the same directory structure (with cp --parents, sadly which is not directly avaialable on Mac OSX), I would probably use the new filenames like:

sed -n 's/.*\\includegraphics\[.*\]{\(.*\)}/\1/p' main.tex | sed 's/\//_/p'

fig_laurana_view30_50.png

Hope this helps, and hopefully I would have time later to grab the necessary knowledge to find a better solution.

This doesn't answer your question since these commands are editing the absolute paths! — cfr, Aug 14 '16 at 01:29

How to copy figures and "input"ed LaTeX source files from absolute directories to a local one?

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